Scandinavian crime fiction

The return of Wallander

24 April, 2025

Kurt Wallander – Sweden’s number one fictional detective – is set to return to television screens around the world in three feature-length adaptations of Henning Mankell’s original novels. Described as a reimagining of the iconic detective, the new series will star Gustaf Skarsgård – previously Floki…

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Son by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger

By Paul Burke

25 March, 2025

French author Johana Gustawsson and her Norwegian counterpart Thomas Enger are each formidable and successful in their own right. Now they’ve joined forces for a brand new crime fiction series set in Norway. It features a psychologist with specialist skills working for the Oslo police…

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New season of Wisting comes to BBC Four and iPlayer

By crimefictionlover

28 January, 2025

Ah, the rugged landscapes of frozen Norway. And also the rugged features of Sven Nordin in the role of William Wisting, the Norwegian detective based in Larvik who seems to land the most difficult of cases. The serial killers, the mutilations and the frozen remains…

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Into Thin Air by Ørjan Karlsson

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

28 January, 2025

Translated by Ian Giles — Ørjan Karlsson’s first novel in the Arctic Murders series takes us all the way to Bodø and Røst, on the Lofoten archipelago in northwest Norway. The most prevalent form of crime here, just inside the Arctic circle, used to be…

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Justice: Those Who Kill on iPlayer and Prime

By crimefictionlover

21 November, 2024

The Danish criminal profiler Louise Bergstein returns to help her police colleagues try to solve a spate of gangland killings in Justice: Those Who Kill, now available on the BBC iPlayer and Amazon Prime. It’s the fourth season in the series, which stars Natalie Madueño…

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Blood Ties by Jo Nesbo

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

17 October, 2024

Translated by Robert Ferguson — In 2020, the leading Norwegian crime author Jo Nesbo took a diversion from his Harry Hole detective novels and created The Kingdom, a Scandinavian answer to rural noir. Inside, he introduced us to Roy and Carl Opgard, brothers with some…

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Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B Schmidt

By crimefictionlover

19 July, 2024

Translated by Jamie Lee Searle — If you haven’t read the first Kalmann novel, first published in 2022, you’ll probably find the opening section its sequel quite disorientating. Ever if you have read it, you may still feel that way. The story is told from…

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Interview: Joachim B Schmidt

By crimefictionlover

8 July, 2024

Sometimes, it seems, magnetic north has a pull that is more than just ionic. For Swiss crime fiction author Joachim B Schmidt, this was certainly the case and after falling in love with the place as a teenager he emigrated there in 2007. It’s where…

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The return of Wallander

Son by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger

New season of Wisting comes to BBC Four and iPlayer

Into Thin Air by Ørjan Karlsson

Justice: Those Who Kill on iPlayer and Prime

Blood Ties by Jo Nesbo

Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B Schmidt

Interview: Joachim B Schmidt

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